Chapter 20 - The Antithesis (1/2)

Bah, whatever… I'll ask later…

Jean: Kiddo, since you finally woke up from such a long slumber in the Sky Poison Pearl, can you at least tell me your name?

The kid didn't answer, as if she didn't hear him, however Jean received his answer after some minutes.

?: Jasmine.

Jean: Jasmine? Huh… I thought that you would have a chinese name…

Jasmine: What is chinese?

Jean: Don't mind it… 'I forgot that here the concept of Chinese doesn't exist…'

Jasmine glanced at Jean for a moment before she said.

Jasmine: Your question, this princess had already answered it. Now, it's time for you to answer this princess' questions. Where in the world, did you obtain the Sky Poison Pearl!

Jasmine was too near for Jean's comfort so he slightly pushed her away and said.

Jean: Calm down woman, I will answer it anyway since you are stuck with me… My master passed it on to me. But I don't know where he got it and now he is 7 feet under the ground.

Jasmine stared at his eyes for three seconds and spoke again with a mechanical voice.

Jasmine: Sky Poison Pearl, ranked fifth in the seven Heavenly Profound Treasures; limitless inner space, can counteract all poisons, refine all ingredients. When appeared for an instant one thousand and three hundred years ago, the whole world turmoiled to obtain it, then it disappeared without a trace.

I didn't expect, that it actually landed into a wastrel who just started cultivating. And even fused with your body! What ridiculousness. I don't know whether this Sky Poison Pearl had lost its spirituality, or its spirit had thoroughly become insane!

Jasmine: If the Sky Poison Pearl would even fuse with a wastrel like you, there is no reason it wouldn't fuse with this princess!

Then Jean was caged in killing intent, but he kept calm and confident. A cold gale slammed Jean against a tree trunk behind him, before the girl appeared in front of him and tightly gripped his throat.

Jean: Heh… Funny.

Jasmine: Tch… I'll give you two choices. Your first choice, obediently turn over the Sky Poison Pearl to this princess. The other is that this princess will take the Sky Poison Pearl from your dead body after I take your life!

Jean: ...Heh… Hahahahaha!

He seemed to have gone mad in Jasmine's opinion, however, in Jean's point of view, it was as if he was told a big joke.

Jasmine: What, you have gone already insane?

Jean: No… It's just that I would be intimidated if… If I didn't knew anything. Sorry but today is almost impossible for you.

Jasmine: Don't be ċȯċky, I need a single finger to reduce you to dust.

Jean: And that's the problem, now I will tell you the two reasons about why you can't kill me. The first one is that we are linked, from what I noticed, your body is semi-ethereal, and you needed my blood to forcefully use the Sky Poison Pearl, meaning that your soul became linked to me.

However, this link is one-sided, meaning that if either you or me would die, the one that's really fuċkėd is you, if you die then nothing happens, but if I die then you will follow me back to Hell.

An intense shock swayed through the depth of Jasmine's eyes and slowly let go of Jean's neck, his smile turned into a frown when he started to cough and the cough turned into puke due to the sudden stimulation to his throat and absence of air.

Jasmine: You don't actually seem to be as useless as you look. How could you tell?

Jean: Heh… *Cough* Because I'm a really skilled doctor, and since you are able to consolidate your soul into a body, you must be someone at the Emperor Profound Realm.

Jasmine: Emperor Profound Realm? What's that?

Jean: ...Nigg-Ugh…

Shockingly for both Jean and Jasmine, a knife was embed on his throat, Jasmine and Jean turned towards the direction that the knife came from, and found Xiao Jiu with an extended arm.

Jasmine had an horrified face at what happened to Jean while the latter was grinning.

Jean: Don't… Touch him…

Jasmine: What?! You are dying! I'm not going to follow you without killing that guy!

Jean: Heh, dying? When you… stay long enough with me… you will realize that it's the hardest thing to do *cough*… Just watch…

Before he could die, he used ”Antithesis” on Xiao Jiu, and Jasmine saw how the wound and the knife disappeared from his neck with something that looked like a signal interference on her vision, and her eyes opened in shock.

Jasmine: Wha-

Xiao Jiu: Guh…

She turned around and saw the same knife on his neck, and he was trying to block the flow of the blood with a terrified expression. Jean stood up and dusted himself, then he said.

Jean: This is the second reason that you can't kill me, it doesn't matter how much you hurt me, you can't kill me unless I let you do it. 'Or you are fast enough to kill me without even making me realize it, but saying that would lose the meaning of intimidating someone so strong…'

Xiao Jiu kneeled in the ground and died of blood loss, then Jasmine turned towards Jean with a surprised expression.

Jasmine: What did you do!?

Jean: I might tell you in future, but I'll not tell you every secret I have just like that.

Jasmine's eyebrow twitched before she took deep breaths.

Jasmine: Whatever…

?: Awooooooo….

A long wolf howl suddenly sounded out from a nearby location, Jean narrowed his eyes and told Jasmine.

Jean: Let's go, I am not that eager to use my ability without a real reason.